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    2/28/26 Queens 10-75 Box 4042

    Eng. 291 should be in the mix.
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    A LOOK BACK.

    Mine also a few years later in '41. His first assignment was a few feet away in 16 Truck.
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    2/9/26 Queens All Hands Box 9646

    My old home box growing up. E 294 is normally 3rd due and L 125 was 1st due years ago, followed by L 155.
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    Rescue Company 3 1947-1948

    I remember my father walking from Richmond Hill to Ridgewood when notified of a recall. The City was very quick to order a recall in those days because it cost nothing. There was no overtime pay.
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    My Favorite FDNY Rig of All Time.

    The very quick '65 Mack pumpers, whistling down the street.
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    VINTAGE FDNY RIG PHOTOS.

    The lime green Macks from 1981 didn't have a scaling ladder but had a strange A Frame. It wasn't very popular and was replaced with an extension ladder shortly afterward.
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    ANOTHER WAR YEARS VET PASSES.

    RIP Lou. Besides being squared away, he was one of the nicest members who passed through when he was bouncing. If I recall well, I think he spent a little time with my father in Ladder 140 before he was promoted.
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    Retro Winter Operations

    You have the tiller at Ladder 142 and a 2nd due box comes in at Broad Channel The unit's apparatus is a wooden aerial from the 1920's and you must sit up on a bench with no windshield for the 6-7 mile run down Crossbay Blvd. This could probably be repeated in many of the outlying ladder...
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    JULY 13, 1977 NYC BLACKOUT

    A day or so following this we ran out of 6 foot hooks at Ladder 112. The night after the blackout was very busy as well and the last fire of the tour was right before 9AM and the Boro Chief was trying to get companies back into service to keep down the overtime.
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    6/4/25 Brooklyn 3rd Alarm Box 787

    I don't see E216 either and BARB must have been very good to E210, placing them before E235.
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    Ex FDNY Chief sentenced to 20 months

    I would think that he will get back whatever he put into his pension, which is very little compared to what he will lose.
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    ANOTHER WAR YEARS VET PASSES.

    RET. FF CONSTANTINE "STAN" GIOIA ENGINE 277 On 1/4/25. Appt to and retired Engine 277 from 1968 through 1995. Resided in West Columbia SC.
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    1/10/25 Bronx 5th Alarm Box 3462

    The special called trucks at 0900 hours included a truck from each of the five boroughs.
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    Engine 209/Ladder 102

    RIP Lad 731
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    11/22/24 Brooklyn 10-75 Box 813

    My mother had 3 brothers and each of them rooted for a different New York team and would only drink their team's beer so she would have to buy all three brands when her family visited us.
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